Faculty of Medicine & affiliated institutes receive over $18M in CIHR Project grants

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The Faculty of Medicine is excited to announce the latest funding allocations from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), receiving a total of 24 grants totaling $18.5M to support research across the Faculty and affiliated institutes.

The CIHR funding supports researchers in all areas of health and aims to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. Thanks to CIHR for their continued support for uOttawa Faculty of Medicine researchers, who continue to make the Faculty of Medicine a leading research-intensive institution.

Congratulations to all research teams!

  • Brouwers, Melissa C - AGREE II Extension: Quality Appraisal of Living Practice Guidelines
  • Colman, Ian R - Supportive factors for mental health in transgender and gender diverse youth
  • Couture, Jean-François - Biochemical and structural studies of poly-TPR containing proteins involved in epigenetic signalling.
  • Jahani-Asl, Arezu - Transcriptional Regulation of Impaired Neurogenesis in Developmental Disorders of Cognition and Intellectual Disability
  • Lee, Seung-Hwan - Developing Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Combination Immunotherapies for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma
  • Rousseaux, Maxime W - TDP-43 SUMOylation safeguards the brain against age-associated neuropathology.
  • Wiper-Bergeron, Nadine L - Uncovering the role of fibro/adipogenic progenitors in the development of stem cell defects and muscle wasting in cancer cachexia.
  • Brehaut, Jamie C - Targeting misinformation-associated health behaviours: Using the tools of implementation science.
  • Dowlatshahi, Dariush - International Care Bundle Evaluation in Cerebral Hemorrhage (I-CATCHER)
  • English, Shane W - Establishing An International Core Outcome Set for Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH) - What and How to Measure Outcomes in SAH Research
  • Gage, Blair K - Regulating the Functions of Human Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells to Fight Liver Disease
  • Hatcher, Simon - The experience of public safety personnel (PSP) families after a suicide and PSP organizations response to a suicide: A qualitative study and creation of a family-centred response guide to PSP suicides
  • Kimpton, Miriam - Low-dose direct oral anticoagulant compared to aspirin for the thromboprophylaxis of patients with JAK2-positive myeloproliferative neoplasms
  • Manuel, Douglas G - Development of reporting guidelines for modelling studies of noncommunicable diseases
  • McIsaac, Daniel I - VIRTUAL Study: Virtual vs In peRson comparaTive effectiveness evaluation of Anesthesiology consuLtations
  • Moher, David - Reproducibility of systematic reviews with meta-analysis: relevance to clinical practice guidelines
  • Ong, Michael - TRIPLE-SWITCH: A Randomized Clinical Trial for the Addition of Docetaxel to Androgen Receptor Pathway Inhibitors (ARPI) and Androgen Deprivation Treatment (ADT) in Patients with Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer (mCSPC) and Suboptimal PSA Response.
  • Solmi, Marco - A living systematic review, meta-analysis and dose-response of randomized controlled trials testing serotonergic psychedelics: efficacy, acceptability, tolerability, safety and publication bias within and across health conditions
  • Wang, Jing - Prenatal exposure of low-dose methylmercury causes abnormal neurodevelopment and its underlying mechanisms
  • Katz, Sherri L - Video Clips for Diagnostic Evaluation of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children (VIDEO)
  • Kim, Kyoung Han - Molecular determinants of ventricular transmural gradients in the healthy and diseased heart
  • Mer, Arvind S - Accelerating and standardizing assessment of acute lung injury using an artificial intelligence based approach
  • El-Chaar, Darine - Respiratory Assessment among Pregnant Individuals for Detecting febrile infections in Ottawa, Ontario
  • Wang, Tzu-Fei - The Impact of language on care and outcomes in patients with prostate or breast cancer
  • Alain, Tommy -  Viralyzing transgenes to improve oncolytic immunotherapy.
  • Djaoud, Zakia - Exploring the education of gd T cells to foster their therapeutic potential